Szentendre is a riverside town in Pest County, Hungary, between the capital city Budapest and Pilis-Visegrád Mountains.

Due to its historic architecture along with easy accessibility via rail and river, it has become a destination for tourists staying in Budapest.

The name of the town is ultimately based on the Medieval Latin form Sankt Andrae ("St. Andrew").

Based on maps of military surveys, there were five brooks in the area: Dera, Bükkös, Öregvíz and Sztelin.

The Dalmatian families settled on Donkey Mountain where Dalmát Street preserves their memory today.

Today, more than two hundred fine and applied artists, authors, poets, musicians and actors live in the city.

The city at that time included only two parts: the downtown and Donkey Mountain, the latter of which became a living space at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Hungarian Open Air Museum (Skanzen), founded in 1967, shows the village and urban societies' different layers, including the various groups' interior furnishings and lifestyles from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 20th centuries.

This electric railway line operates a frequent train service between Szentendre and Batthyány tér metro station in Budapest via Békásmegyer.

By the late 19th century rapidly growing Hungarians became the dominant ethnic group, assimilated Germans and the remaining Serbs too.

Today there are active Serbian, Croat, German, and Polish municipal minority self-governments in Szentendre.